The golden cross and death cross have long had great bull and bear market narratives associated with them and lots of investors pay attention to when the 50SMA and 200SMA cross one another.

In this video, we write the code to simulate a golden cross trading strategy and take a look at the performance you would have achieved following these signals.

SKIP AHEAD TIME STAMPS
0:00 Introduction to Beyond the Charts
2:18 Introduction to golden cross
3:53 Introduction to the experiment
5:12 Main strategy method - OnBarUpdate()
7:02 Buy sell strategy rules - BuySellRules()
11:03 Position size rules - ComputeShareSize()
12:58 Track running PNL - CalculatePerformance()
13:40 Output performance to log - OutputPerformance()
14:48 Initialize strategy variables
15:32 Stock market data source
17:06 Choosing a benchmark
17:54 Visual strategy analysis
21:05 Exporting NinjaTrader data to Excel
23:50 Strategy equity curve analysis 13-year backtest
26:17 Strategy performance metrics
29:16 Strategy equity curve analysis 20-year backtest
33:28 Is trading the golden cross profitable?
34:00 Is it worth trading the golden cross strategy?

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GITHUB CODE
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STRATEGY PERFORMANCE METRICS GLOSSARY
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